"We'd like to apologize for this mistake", said Erin Egan, Facebook's chief privacy officer, in a statement. The company said on Thursday the bug automatically suggested that users make new posts public, even if they had previously restricted to "friends only" or another private setting. The bug affected Facebook posts between May 18 and 27; although Facebook fixed the error on May 22, it took five days to reverse the problem for all affected posts. It happened when the platform started building a "featured items" section in profiles for users to highlight content of their choosing.

When people post to Facebook, the service suggests and audience for their posts, based on past privacy settings.

It was unclear if users could have done anything to their settings to prevent being affected by the bug the company revealed on Thursday.

"Starting today we are letting everyone affected know and asking them to review any posts they made during that time", Egan said.

San Francisco: Facebook acknowledged Thursday a software glitch that changed the settings of some 14 million users, potentially making some posts public even if they were meant to be private.

Huawei, a company flagged by US intelligence officials as a national security threat, was the latest device maker at the center of a fresh wave of allegations over Facebook's handling of private data. People could have changed the individual audience setting on posts, but would have had to notice the setting was different from what they'd chosen. The company has persuaded billions of people to share personal details about their lives on the understanding that they have complete control over who can see what stuff.

It is still unclear how numerous 14 million profiles that were affected may have posted content privately without realizing they were sharing publicly.

The firm added that the notification is part of Facebook's broader and recent efforts to be more transparent about its product and how its handling privacy issues.

Keys slipped two breaks down in the second but although she pulled one back Stephens served out for the match. The victor earns a berth in the final at Roland Garros - plus the No 1 ranking that now belongs to Halep.

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He said the company 'had to assess the workability of the legislation as a global business with multiple worldwide sites'. New Zealand had also already applied GST to digital services from offshore, such as Netflix in 2016.

Among those still detained are Lojain al-Hathloul, Eman al-Najfan, Aziza al-Yousef, Mohammed al-Rabea and Ibrahim Modaimeegh. In some cases, such as repeat offenders, the sentence could be increased to five years in prison and fines of up to $80,000.

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If you're a hardcore mobile gamer, however, nothing on or coming to the market now beats the gaming power packed in that size. You can dock it, slot two halves of a controller on each side, and even connect a second screen to it so it acts like a 3DS.

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